Retrenchment in the American welfare state : the Reagan and Clinton administrations in comparative perspective / Martin Schuldes.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Schuldes, Martin.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas ; Bd. 30.

Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas ; Bd. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--United States--History--20th century.

Welfare state.

History.

United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xxi, 675, A-7, B-1, C-15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Lit ; London : Global [distributor], [2011]

Summary:

"The consolidation of public finance has become the most prevalent topic in recent policy discourse in the US. However, the political debate about fiscal "belt-tightening" stretches back to the last decades of the past millennium, induced by deteriorating economic conditions which followed the first oil price shock in the early 1970s. Retrenchment in the American Welfare State investigates to what extent different welfare state programs in the US were affected by cutbacks during the Republican Reagan era, on the one hand, and during the Democratic Clinton era on the other, and to what extent these cutbacks reveal certain "patterns" of retrenchment, and how the measured discrepancies can best be explained."--P. [4] of cover.

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral)--Free University, Berlin, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [615]-675).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

3643901534

9783643901538

OCLC:

776762021

Publisher Number:

99953671873